Trey Smith was hurt early on, but played through it. Clearly was not at 100%.
They played the run very well. It's okay to admit it, it's not like the Bengals are a bad football team and can't adapt. They probably wanted to test Mahomes' ankle as much as they could, so they hard-focused the run game and forced Mahomes to pass. And as we kept losing WR's, they leaned on that strategy more and more.
As the game went on, I think the Bengals assumed that Mahomes wouldn't be able to continue pulling off miracles on one foot, but he did. That TD drive to put us up 20-13 was Mahomes putting the team on his back, herculean effort.
Basically, we good.
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